Bella Wallis is a respectable society woman with a secret identity: in an office buried deep within the seedy backstreets of London, she writes sensationalist novels exposing the scoundrels that litter high society under the pen name Henry Ellis Margam.So when a crested cigar case is found near the body of a murdered prostitute, Bella and her friends are determined to trace the murderer and write a mystery that will avenge the poor girl's untimely death. But the owner of the cigar ...

A Lost Soul. A Hidden War. A Destiny Beyond Death.Frank Hess is dead, yet he's never been more alive. Awakening as a spirit with no memory, he's plunged into a complex afterlife brimming with enigmatic "Observers," cunning "Tricksters," and dangerous "Demons." Guided by Michael, a 4000-year-old mentor with a teenager's wit, Frank discovers he's an "Observer," destined to aid humanity, but first, he must untangle the devastating secrets of his own past.What ...

Anger is eternal. In the afterlife, it takes shape.Stephen was a husband, a father, and a friend until betrayal and murder twisted him into something darker. Now he walks the spirit world as a Demon, cursed to carry an anger that never dies. Revenge drives him, but vengeance doesn't satisfy. Every act of retribution only fuels the fire until his fury threatens to consume not just himself, but the fragile balance of the afterlife.As Demons, Observers, Tricks...

A Lost Soul. A Hidden War. A Destiny Beyond Death.Frank Hess is dead, yet he's never been more alive. Awakening as a spirit with no memory, he's plunged into a complex afterlife brimming with enigmatic "Observers," cunning "Tricksters," and dangerous "Demons." Guided by Michael, a 4000-year-old mentor with a teenager's wit, Frank discovers he's an "Observer," destined to aid humanity, but first, he must untangle the devastating secrets of his own past.What ...

Death wasn't the end for Stephen. It was only the beginning of an eternal curse, fueled by unquenchable rage. Betrayed by those he loved, he awakens as a Demon with one goal: brutal, calculated revenge. But his journey will not only drag you through a world of betrayal and justice but also through the dark side of the afterlife, where ancient grudges dictate devastating new realities. Are you ready to witness the cunning unraveling of lives, meticulously orchestrated by a ...

Bella Wallis – respectable society widow with a secret identity as a writer of sensationalist novels – is now happily engaged to the love of her life, Philip Westland. But Westland’s shadowy job, working for the British government, continually takes him abroad and away from the charismatic, impatient Bella. And then there is the matter of Westland’s sister’s incarceration in a French nunnery, a mystery about which he refuses to say a word.Bella is convinced that their future togeth...

Calixa Lavallée, the composer of “O Canada,” was the first Canadian-born musician to achieve an international reputation. While primarily remembered for the national anthem, Lavallée and his work extended well beyond Canada, and he played a multitude of roles in North American music as a composer, conductor, administrator, instrumentalist, educator, and critic.In Anthems and Minstrel Shows, Brian Thompson analyzes Lavallée’s music, letters, and published writings, as well ...

This Edition does not include illustrations.A hilariously funny history of a bizarre 19th-century life of the woman who was a proto-type Pankhurst. The non-fiction debut of one of the most talented comic historians of social manners.Georgina Weldon was born in 1837 and, although almost no one will have heard of her, the only talent she really had was for self-advertisement. She is one of the great undiscovered and unsung eccentrics of the 19th-century.Her ego was mo...

A true story of empire set in the Crimea, Sudan, Ceylon and Egypt – beautifully written and shot through with real psychological and historical insight.'Victorian Britain, that seemingly most conformist of ages, was in fact teeming with eccentrics. The fabulous Baker Brothers were eccentric in a conformist way for the time: Sir Samuel searched for the source of the Nile; Baker Pasha became leader of the Ottoman army. But it was that epitome of empire, and epitome of the Christian E...

London is alive with gossip about the thrilling new book by sensationalist author Henry Ellis Margam, but only a select group of people know that the real author is beautiful widow, and member of high society, Bella Wallis.One of her confidantes is the dashing Philip Westland, who comes to Bella now with a problem: his best friend Kennet is smitten with the heiress Mary Skillane but Mary's father, Sir William, has promised her to Robert Judd, a vulgar treasure-seeker. Mary is due t...

After a failed coup, a revolutionary named Noor is exiled and sentenced to die. Vowing to rule earth, but separated from his lieutenants, he is forced to use human beings instead.In the year 2050, tragedy strikes. Harper Lowe loses her son's father to a last-minute decision. A drunk Damario Coley is maimed in a freak accident. Quinne Ruiz is assaulted and arrested, and Teanna Kirkwood witnesses the death of her daughter.Weeks later, the alluring Kareza Noor, CEO of the Gene...

In 1973, Brian Thompson kissed the impossibly glamorous Elizabeth North for the first time, in a busy supermarket car park along the Leeds ring road. This is the story of the unexpectedly joyous consequences – ones to baffle many, not least themselves – until her death, aged 78.Both were writers, though they came from opposite ends of the social register – she an Admiral’s daughter, he the descendant of unruly Cockney eccentrics. She was by nature a solitary, while he was loud, inc...